Gwangju Dong-gu, Governance Agreement for Revitalizing Local Craft and Design

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[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 23rd that it signed a public-private governance business agreement with the local craft and design creative group on the 22nd to revitalize local crafts and design and seek changes in local creative projects.

At the signing ceremony, Dong-gu Miro Center and ▲Daily Art Research Institute (CEO Lee Yoo-jin) ▲Design Studio 821 (CEO Park Hye-young) ▲Damul Cooperative (CEO Lee Sang-na) ▲Universal Trend Center Co., Ltd. (CEO Han Woo-sung) attended and explored ways to operate a supplier community in the craft and design field and globalize crafts and design.

Specifically, they agreed to actively cooperate on ▲joint discovery of new content to create new regional value ▲experimental exploration to satisfy future generation preferences ▲promotion of ethical craft consumption considering society and the environment ▲development of convergence technologies for the expansion of the 4th industrial revolution.

Im Taek, Mayor of Dong-gu, said, “It is time for the craft and design sector based on local resources to seek changes for the global environment and future generations,” adding, “I hope it grows into a craft and design network that can leap beyond material and design research, branding, and marketing cooperation to an international development industry.”

Meanwhile, since 2020, Dong-gu Miro Center has been operating a marketing support market held twice a year and the ‘Dong-gu Craftmanship’ community, in which local craft and design artists participate, to popularize craft and design arts according to the preferences of citizens dreaming of cultural spaces in their homes.

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